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Jan 1, 1000
Archaic
This was a time of changing climatic conditions in which the area may have become significantly drier and warmer than it is today.Early Archaic people were hunters and gathers who lived in small groups "bands" of twenty to fifty people.They hunted white tail deer,black bear,turkey, and other large animals.They collected nuts,roots,fruits,seeds, and berries.Their houses was small, and they made spaer heads and other tools out of stone -
Jan 1, 1000
Paleo
This period marks the first colonization of the new world by humans.These people came to America from Asia.They hunted large animals like mammoths,camels,and bison.No discovery has been made of early human ancesters.They mainly had wooden supplies or unstable shelter. -
Jan 1, 1000
Woodland
Settlements may have become more sturdy during the early Woodland sub-period.Settlements also became larger,one of the trend thay diminished was mound construction.This period the bow and arrow was adopted.The bow and arrow made warfare more deadly. -
Period: Oct 21, 1496 to May 21, 1542
Hernando de soto
Hernando de soto was a spanish explorer and conquistador.He discovered the Mississippi River.He was born in Jerez de los caballeros,Spain and died in Ferriday, Louisiana.He was 46 years old when he died. -
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John Reynolds
John Reynolds was Georgia's first royal governor. He was also a captain in the British royal navy. Then he decided to run the colony alone. Most people disagreed with his decision. -
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Henry Ellis
Henry Ellis was Georgia's second royal governor. He brought the people of the colony together. Also he promoted farming and large farms. And promoted a variety of goods. He accomplished major economic growth, major growth of population, and had a good relationship with natives. -
Charter of 1732
The charter was a legal document that granted special rights and privilages. King George granted and signed the charter of 1732. It was granted on April 21, 1732. It was signed on June 7, 1732. -
Salzburgers Arrive
The Salzburgers arrived in Georgia on 1734. They were a group of German speaking protestant colonists. They recieved support from King George II of England and the Georgia Trustees after they were expelled from their homes in the Catholic Principality of Salzburg. -
Highland Scotts arrive
The HIghland Scotts were a group of colonists from Scotland. They migrated to Georgia in 1736. Many of them chose to settle in North Carolina today we have evidence. -
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Elijah ckarke / kettle creek
He was the sun of john clarke. Around 1763 he married Hannah Harrington. In the rebel victory of kettle creek Georgia, he led the charge. -
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Austin dabney
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American revolution
Before and after the American revolution georgosns faced a unique Ste of problems. The northern radicals did not support the movement towards independents. One main reason was for protection. England offered a level of safety that the new station could not. -
University OF Georgia
Georgia was the first state to charter a state supported university. The university was actually established in 1801 when a committee of the board of trustees selected a land site. Abraham Baldwin was the first president of the university of Georgia. The first meeting was held in Augusta o February 13, 1786. -
Georgia ratifies constitution
Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the u.s. constitution. Georgia began a revision of its state constitution in convention. The constitution of 1789 happened after the u.s. constitution. -
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Constitutional convention
A constitutional convention is a gathering for the purpose if writing a new constitution. Also to revise an existing one. It occured in Georgia in 1861. It as held for the purpose of constructing a constitution. -
Georgia Founded
Georgia was founded by James Oglethorpe.Georgia was named after King George II of England.Georgia was the last to be established of the English colonies in North America.It was formed because the British Government wanted to protect South Carolina from the Spaniards from Florida and the French from Louisiana. -
Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney's original gin patent dated march 14, 1794. The south became the cotton producing part of the country because Eli Whitney's cotton gin was able to successfully pull out the seeds from the cotton balls. Also Gin in cotton gin is short for engine. -
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Yazoo Land Fraud
The yazoo land fraud was one of the most significant events in the post-revolutionary war historof Georgia. The bizarre climax to a decade of frenzied speculation in the states public lands. The yazoo sale of 1795 did much to shape Georgias politics and to strain relations with the Federal government for a generation. -
Capital moved to Louisville
Louisville is the county seat of Jefferson county. It also served as Georgias third capital. The town grew as the result of both large scale immigration to Georgias upcountry after the America Revolution and the desire of many Georgians to enhance the states commerical prosperity. -
Missouri Compromise
Finally a compromise was reached. On march 3, 1820 congress passed a bill granting Missouri statehood as a slave state under the condition that slaver was to be forever prohibited in the rest of the louisiana purchase north of paralle, which runs approximately alng the southern border of Missouri. -
Dahlonega Gold Rush
The Georgia Gold Rush was the second significant gold rush in the United States. It overshadowed the gold rush in North Carolina. It started in Lumpkin county and followed the Georgia Gold Belt. -
Worcester v. Georgia
This was a case in which the U.S. surpreme court vacated the conviction of Samual worcester. And held that the Georgia criminal statute that prohibited non-native anericans from being present on Native American lands without a license without a license from the state was unconstitutional. -
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Trail of Tears
In 1838 and 1839 as part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy. The Cherokee nation was forced to give up their land east of the Mississippi river. And to migrate to an area in present day Oklahoma. The Cherokee people called this the trail of tears because of its devastating effects. -
Compromise of 1850
The compromise of 1850 was a package of five seperate bills. That was passed by the Ubited States congrees in september 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states. During the Mexican-American war. -
WEB Du Bois
William Edward Burghardt "W.E.B" DuBois was an American socioligist, historian, civil rights activists, panafricanists, author, and editor. He was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community. -
Atlanta Braves
Tha Atlanta Braves are an American baseball franchise based in Atlanta since 1966. Before based in Atlante they originated and played for many decades in Boston. And then subsequently playing for Milwaukee for a little more then a decade. -
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International Cotton Exposition
The international cotton exposition was a worlds fair held in Atlanta, Georgia from October 5 to December 31 of 1881. The location was along the Western Atlantic Railroad tracks near the present-day King Plow Arts center development in the western mid town area. -
Carl Vinson
Carl Vinson, recognized as "the father of the two-ocean navy," served twenty-five consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. When he retired in January 1965, he had served in the U.S. Congress longer than anyone in history. -
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Eugene Talmadge
Eugene talmadge was a democratic politician who served 2 terms as the 67th governor of Georgia from 1933 to 1937. Also a third term from 1941 to 1943. He was elected to a fourth term but died before his inauguration. -
Benjamin Mays
Benjamin Mays was a distinguished African American minister, educator, scholar, and social activist. Perhaps best known as the longtime president of Morehouse College in Atlanta. Also he was a significant mentor to civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. -
Booker T. Washington
Born in Virginia in the mid-to-late 1850s, Booker T. Washington put himself through school and became a teacher. In 1881, he founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama (now known as Tuskegee University), which grew immensely and focused on training African Americans in agricultural pursuits. -
Plessy V. Ferguson
This was a U.S. supreme court case. This case up held the constitutionality of segregatio under the " Seperate bus equal " doctrine. It stemmed from an 1892 incident in which African-American train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a Jim Crow car, braking a Louisianna law. -
John and Lugenia hope
John was an important leader in the civil rights movement. He was born in Augusta, GA in 1868 to a black mother and white father. Lugenia hope was an earlt twentieth century social activists, reformer, and community organizer. She was born on February 19, 1871 in St, Louis, Missouri. -
richard russel
richard russel was an Amercan politician from Georgia. He was also a member of the democratic party. He served briefly as speaker of Ga house, and served as governor of Ga. He also was U.S. senate for around 40 years. -
Alonzo Herndon
Born into slavery in Walton county on june 26, 1858, Alonzo gerw up on a farm in a sicial circle 40 miles east of Atlanta. He was a bisineesman and founder and president of the Atlanta Family Life Insurance company. -
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1906 Atlanta Riot
The Atlanta race riot of 1906 was a mass civil disturbance in Atlanta, Georgia. It began the evening of September 22 and lasted until September 24, 1906. It was characterized at the time by Le Petit journal and other media outlets as a " racial massacre of Negroes " -
Leo Frank Case
The Leo Frank case is one of the most notorious and highly publicized case in the legal annals of Georgia. A Jewish man in Atlanta was placed on trial for raping and murdering a thirteen year old girl whoo worked for the National Pencil Company, which he managed. -
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World War 1
This was the world's first global conflict. The "Great War" pitted the Central Powers of Germany Austria Hungary in the Ottoman Empire. These Central Powers went against the Allied forces of Great Britain the United States France Russia Italy and Japan. The introduction of technology resulted in unprecedented carriage and destruction with more than 9 million soldiers killed by the end of the war in November 1918. -
Lester maddox
Lester Garfield Maddox, Sr. (September 30, 1915 – June 25, 2003), was an American politician who was the 75th Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1967 to 1971. -
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County Unit System
The County Unit System was a voting system of Georgia.It was used to deternine a victor n statewide primary elections from 1917 umtil 1962. -
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Tom Watson and the Populists
The public life of Thomas E, Watson is perhaps one of the more purplexing and controversial among Georgia politicians. In his early years he was characterized as a liberal, especially for his time. -
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James wright
James weight was Georgia's third and final royal governor. He expanded farm and trade. He also tried to move the capital away from savannah. He enforces the act regardless of peoples opinions. -
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Great Depression
The Great Depression was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. In the United States the Great Depression begins soon after the stock market crash of October 1929 which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out many of investors. -
Andrew Young
Andrew Jackson Young, Jr. is an American politician, diplomat, activist, and pastor from Georgia. He has served as a Congressman from Georgia's 5th congressional district, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, and Mayor of Atlanta. -
Civilian conservation corps
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families as part of the New Deal. -
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Holocaust
The word “Holocaust,” from the Greek words “holos” (whole) and “kaustos” (burned), was historically used to describe a sacrificial offering burned on an altar. Since 1945, the word has taken on a new and horrible meaning: the mass murder of some 6 million European Jews (as well as members of some other persecuted groups, such as Gypsies and homosexuals) by the German Nazi regime during the Second World War. -
Agriculture adjustment act
The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was a United States federal law of the New Deal era which reduced agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies not to plant on part of their land and to kill off excess livestock. Its purpose was to reduce crop surplus and therefore effectively raise the value of crops. -
Rural electrification
Although nearly 90 percent of urban dwellers had electricity by the 1930s, only ten percent of rural dwellers did. Private utility companies, who supplied electric power to most of the nation's consumers, argued that it was too expensive to string electric lines to isolated rural farmsteads. Anyway, they said, most farmers, were too poor to be able to afford electricity -
Social security
any government system that provides monetary assistance to people with an inadequate or no income.
(in the US) a federal insurance program that provides benefits to retired people and those who are unemployed or disabled.
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William B. Hartsfield
Willaim B. Hartsfield became one of the greates mayors of Atlants. He was the mayor of Atlanta for six terms (1937-41, 1942-61). Thats longer than any person in the city's history. -
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World War 2
Coming just two decades after the last great global conflict, the Second World War was the most widespread and deadliest war in history, involving more than 30 countries and resulting in more than 50 million military and civilian deaths (with some estimates as high as 85 million dead). Sparked by Adolf Hitler’s invasion of Poland in 1939, the war would drag on for six deadly years until the final Allied defeat of both Nazi Germany and Japan in 1945. -
Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter.
Hamilton E. Holmes. Hamilton E. Holmes (8 July 1941 – 26 October 1995) was an American orthopedic physician. He and Charlayne Hunter-Gault were the first two African-American students admitted to the University of Georgia. -
Pearl harbor
Just before 8 a.m. on December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The barrage lasted just two hours, but it was devastating: The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and more than 300 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded. -
Atlanta Hawks
The Atlanta Hawks are a professional basketball team from Atlanta Georgia. They compete in the National Basketball Association a member team of the league's Eastern Conference Southeast Division. The Hawks home games are played at Philips Arena. -
1946 Governors race
Georgia's "three governors controversy" of 1946-47, which began with the death of governor-elect Eugene Talmadge, was one of the more bizarre political spectacles in the annals of American politics. In the wake of Talmadge's death, his supporters proposed a plan that allowed the Georgia legislature to elect a governor in January 1947. When the General Assembly elected Talmadge's son Herman Talmadge as governor, the newly elected lieutenant governor, Melvin Thompson, claimed the officeofgovernor" -
Herman Talmadge
Herman Eugene Talmadge senior served as the 70th governor of Georgia briefly in 1947 and again from 1948 to 1955. He was a democratic American politician from Georgia. -
Brown V. Board of Education
Brown vs board of education , is one of hope and courage, which ended segregation in public schools. The people never knew that they would change history, when they agreed to be plaintiffs in the case. The people involved with this case are ordinary people. -
1956 State Flag
The State Flag of 1956 was design specified the same blue canton as discripted in 1902. On it was the Great Seal of the state of Georgia. -
Sibley Commision
During this event Governor Ernest Vandiver Jr., was forced to decide between closing public schools or complying with a federal order to desegregate them. This was called the Sibley Commison and it started in the year of 1960. -
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
This event was formed to give younger African Americans more of a voice during the civil rights movement. It became one of the movements more radical branches. -
The Albany Movement
This event was a desegregation coalition formed in Albany, Georgia, on November 17, 1961, by local activists, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee , and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. -
Ivan Allen Jr.
Ivan Allen Jr held office as mayor of Atlanta from 1962 to 1970. He was given credit for leading the city through an era of economic and significant physical growth. He was also credited with staying calm through the civil rights movement. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr played a Major role in the American civil rights movement from the mid 1950's until 1968 when he was assassinated. He was a Baptist minister and social activist. He lived from 1929 to 1968. -
March on Washington
The Great March on Washington as styled in a sound recording released after the event. The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the March on Washington, was one of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States history and called for civil and economic rights for African Americans. -
Civil Rights Act
This event that occured on1964 (Pub.L. 88–352, 78 Stat. 241, enacted July 2, 1964) is a landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Atlanta Falcons
The Atlanta Falcons are a professional american football tema out of Atlanta, Georgia. Thay were formed in 1965. They are a member of the south division of the National Footbal Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). -
Maynard Jackson Elected Mayor
Maynard Jackson was the first African American to serve as mayor of a major southern city. Becoming mayor of Atlanta in 1973. -
Jimmy Carter in Georgia
Jimmy Carter served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. He was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for work to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development. -
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1996 Olympic games
From July 19 until August 4, 1996, Atlanta hosted the Centennial Summer Olympic Games, an event that was without doubt the largest undertaking in the city's history. The goal of civic leaders was to promote Atlanta's image as an international city ready to play an important role in global commerce. -
Missouri Compromise
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Mississippian
The Mississipian is the newest time period.Mississippian people spent much of their time outdoors.The Mississippian way of life was more than just an adaption to landscape-it was also a social structure During this period they had weapons that were way more advanced and the building were alot more strurdy and stable.They also ate wild plants and animals.They would gather nuts and fruits and hunt game such as deer turkey and other small animals.
